silverjets:I think the best part is the running gag of Robin having been a teenage pop-star a la Alanis. I'm sure very few Americans watching the show get that they are spoofing Alanis Morissette.

Which they made REALLY obvious in this episode, even if you didn't pick up on it before, both with the Robin Sparkles/Robin Daggers transformation, which was basically what happened with Morissette for her Jagged Little Pill album.

Plus that they actually had Dave Coulier as a potential stalkee, when he WAS the dude Morissette wrote "You Oughta Know" about. Which is just icing on the delicious Priestley donut because Bob Saget's the narrator on HIMYM.

Doc Daneeka:silverjets:I think the best part is the running gag of Robin having been a teenage pop-star a la Alanis. I'm sure very few Americans watching the show get that they are spoofing Alanis Morissette.

uhh...they kind of beat you over the head with the Alanis references. Everyone got it. Hell, they even threw Dave Coulier in there.

It's not like Alanis Morissette was some obscure singer in the States. She was pretty big in the 90s. She was all over the radio, and Jagged Little Pill sold a bajillion copies.

I was referring to the fact that before she was the artist Alanis Morissette she was the pop-star Alanis. Which is what the running gag, from way back in season 2, has been all about. Until last night's episode put it all together I don't think many Americans actually got the "extra layer" to the joke.

dj_spanmaster:Thx but now I live in FL. Many miles away from the land of salt potatoes, wegmans and zweigles.

You can get all of those things in southeast FL. Pretty much anywhere from West Palm to Miami.

The southernmost Wegmans is located in Fredericksburg, VA.

They have expanded considerably past their upstate New York roots, but they are nowhere near Florida yet.

Stop at Wegmans whenever I visit family in Buffalo. My parents have one right around the corner from their house. Sometimes it makes me wish I never moved away. I have both a Trader Joes and a Whole Foods within a short drive from where I live, and I still think they both suck compared to Wegmans.

Doc Daneeka:dj_spanmaster: Thx but now I live in FL. Many miles away from the land of salt potatoes, wegmans and zweigles.

You can get all of those things in southeast FL. Pretty much anywhere from West Palm to Miami.

The southernmost Wegmans is located in Fredericksburg, VA.

They have expanded considerably past their upstate New York roots, but they are nowhere near Florida yet.

Stop at Wegmans whenever I visit family in Buffalo. My parents have one right around the corner from their house. Sometimes it makes me wish I never moved away. I have both a Trader Joes and a Whole Foods within a short drive from where I live, and I still think they both suck compared to Wegmans.

And here I was thinking that these were all Jewish specialty food items.

dj_spanmaster:Doc Daneeka: dj_spanmaster: Thx but now I live in FL. Many miles away from the land of salt potatoes, wegmans and zweigles.

You can get all of those things in southeast FL. Pretty much anywhere from West Palm to Miami.

The southernmost Wegmans is located in Fredericksburg, VA.

They have expanded considerably past their upstate New York roots, but they are nowhere near Florida yet.

Stop at Wegmans whenever I visit family in Buffalo. My parents have one right around the corner from their house. Sometimes it makes me wish I never moved away. I have both a Trader Joes and a Whole Foods within a short drive from where I live, and I still think they both suck compared to Wegmans.

And here I was thinking that these were all Jewish specialty food items.

Well, salt potatoes are everywhere but Zwiegels is the local hot dog maker. Go a little to the east to Central NY and they have Hoffmans for their regional dog.

Wegmans was at the very top of my PRO list when I made a PROs and CONs list about 8 years ago on whether to stay or leave the area for work.